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Undergrads See Real-Life Ethics by Shadowing Clinicians
Research suggests that medical schools can neither improve ethical inclinations, nor guarantee progress in moral reasoning for students who lack well-developed moral motivation and moral sensitivity when starting such training.
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When Should a Threatening Patient be Reported?
Recent amendments to federal patient privacy regulations give clinicians new allowance to report patients with mental health issues, but state laws may differ.
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Report: Proposed Common Rule Revisions Should be Withdrawn
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Revise the Common Rule should be withdrawn, according to a report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.
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Data On 2,000 Patients Gives Visual of Final Year of Life
Advance planning discussions rarely occur at the time of a life-threatening diagnosis. This, in part, is responsible for the large number of in-hospital deaths depicted by a new visual graphic on the last year of life.
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Getting Buy-in For Including Cost in Decision-making is Uphill Battle
Any talk of considering costs in treatment decisions usually triggers an immediate outcry against “rationing” of care, experts say.
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Is Hospital Keeping Spiritual Care Promises In Mission Statement?
Ethicists and chaplains can hold health systems accountable for mission statements referencing “whole person” care and spiritual health.
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‘Betraying Trust’ of Subjects is Ethical Concern of Unpublished Clinical Trial Data
Ethicists call for research funders to require publication of all completed trials or to make study data publicly available to other investigators.
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Congress Wants Answers on EpiPen Price Spike
Maker of life-saving auto-injector continues pushing costs in face of scant competition.
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Dietary Supplement Safety
A recent ABC article on a Consumer Reports publication reviewed concerns surrounding dietary supplement safety.